Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Development

David B. Audretsch and Mark Sanders

No RP2009-50, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in manufactures, this has been a big success. But has it?

Keywords: Economic development; Globalization; International economic relations; International trade; Technological innovations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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